Facebook Bans Google+ Advertisements (even from users)

Facebook for a very long time has been one of the worlds most targeted and successful advertising networks, displaying relevent ads to users and their friends. In some cases, Facebook ads are purchased by users to show off cool things to friends and maybe a few other people who take notice — This is what happened when Michael Lee Johnson  decided to buy advertising space to promote his new Google+ profile on Facebook.

Hands On With Facebook Video Chat

Facebook is launching a new feature which has been going around in the rumor mill for quite some time, and that is the long awaited Facebook Video Chat. Facebook has teamed up with Skype to allow users to video chat right in Facebook. Video chat with friends is not the only enhancement to Facebook’s chat feature, Facebook is also rolling out Group Chat. These features are now available (by enabling them) to all of Facebook’s 750 million members, in addition they will be rolling out as default over the next few weeks.

Google Plus Invites are back... want one? We have lots of them!

Update — Apparently Google just opened up Google+ to everyone with a Gmail address!

If you haven’t heard, Okay Geek is now on Google+ and ever since we arrived, we can’t help but feel a tad lonely. I mean, everyone is here, just sitting and waiting to get a taste of the Google+ fun, and all the fellow Okay Geek readers are still left in the outskirts of the Google+ front gate. Well not if we can help it! We want to give all of our Google+ invites to you, and you can find out how to ask for one after the break!

Team Fortress 2 is now free to play forever -- Download now!

If you haven’t heard by now, Valve has relaunched the famous team-based game Team Fortress 2 as a free-to-play title now running solely off in-game microtransactions. And if you’ve been around the game for any sort of time then you know the type of demand hats and other additional accessories meant to customize your character get. This business model seems to be enough to keep the game running and then some, sparking the idea to make the game now free for the masses. — Details after the break!

Your Dropbox account was unlocked for 4 hours last weekend, anyone could access it

Dropbox is one of my favorite services, and I am sure many of our readers have been using Dropbox for a very long time. We have managed to trust Dropbox with our files stored on their servers, and for the most part they seemed to have been pretty proficient in keeping them safe. Dropbox was such a wonderful service… until last weekend when their lack of attention to security became blatantly obvious.

Personal details about LulzSec members slowly being leaked

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you have missed all the news about LulzSec (Lulz Security). The group of self-proclaimed internet vigilantes are responsible for the PSN outage and bringing down Sony Pictures, the FBI, PBS, Fox.com and Xfactor (to name a few). They were initially praised for their proficiency in attacking “evil” companies, but recently, LulzSec’s reputation to the mainstream has turned sour.

Rumor: Halo 4's plot and gameplay details leaked

“Don’t ask where I got this, and don’t ask for a source,” is how one member on Bungie.net’s forum started out his post concerning the possible leakage of critical plot details for Halo 4. According to Shadow 13th, who supposedly received information from someone who undiscreetly broke an embargo about Bungie’s supposed Halo Anniversary August celebration, a “new dark threat” is about to plague the universe, and it’s about to noneother than Master Chief himself to uncover the mysteries of the Forerunner planet Sigma 7. — Details after the break!